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Aspen Ideas: Health 2021 - Day 1

Plenary 1

From the impact of music and the arts on the human brain to medical research being done in space, and from preventing the next pandemic to the power of art to communicate important public health messages, this Aspen Ideas Health session features leading experts and innovators across a range of topics.

Featured Speakers

Tom Frieden President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives; Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dan Porterfield President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

John Torres Senior Medical Correspondent, NBC News; Emergency Room Physician

Francis Collins Director, National Institutes of Health

Renée Fleming Soprano; Co-Director, Aspen Opera Theater; Artistic Advisor, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Elise Labott Columnist, Foreign Policy; Founder, Twopoint.0 Media

Morris Birnbaum Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Internal Medicine Research Unit, Pfizer

Laurie Zephyrin Vice President, Advancing Health Equity, The Commonwealth Fund

Arpa Garay President, Global Pharmaceuticals, Commercial Analytics, and Digital Marketing, Merck & Co.

Taren Grom Co-Founding Partner, PharmaLinx; Editor, PharmaVOICE

Amna Nawaz Senior National Correspondent, "PBS NewsHour," PBS

Hayley Arceneaux Physician Assistant, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Participant, SpaceX Inspiration4 Mission

Tom Costello Correspondent, NBC News

Serena Auñón-Chancellor Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Amanda McClelland Senior Vice President, Prevent Epidemics Initiative, Resolve to Save Lives

Emmanuel Agogo Nigeria Country Representative, Resolve to Save Lives, Vital Strategies

Aaron Huey Founder and Creative Director, Amplifier; Photographer

Deep Dive: Structural Racism in Medicine

Aspen Ideas Heath Structural Racism In Medicine

Harriet Washington
David Williams
Trymaine Lee
Marcella Nunez-Smith

Structural racism — produced by laws, rules, practices, and other policies that are sanctioned and implemented — has been a part of modern American medicine from its start. Coupled with structural racism embedded in other social foundations such as residential housing, the result has been unequal health care and poorer health outcomes for communities of color. Watch as the panel of medical and health experts discuss the long and disturbing history of structural racism in medicine and offer solutions for its dismantlement.